
You will find a couple in the many that you have absolutely nailed the focus. It is not like when I started photography and every capture cost money to process. Have your smartphone attached to a selfie stick (or handhold if you are brave) and physically move the smartphone back and forth in a rocking motion as you capture lots of photos. Turn on the manual focus mode inside Adobe Lightroom camera. I started with the smartphone on a little tripod, however, ended up hand holding the camera and used the green manual focus overlay to tell me if I had to move fractionally closer or further away.Ĭapturing flying insects - Who doesn't love a great, detailed bee image? I have two different techniques for you to try here to ensure the perfect sharpness.ġ. This created a moat around the moss preventing the bull ants from running the area. Recently, I captured some bull ants on a floating piece of moss inside a bowl. Depending on the lighting and your camera manual settings, the moving flowers can become a contrasting blurred background.Ĭapturing walking insects -My big tip with this one is to minimise the movement options for the insect. Fortunately, as discovered in lesson 2.4 Manual focus using Adobe Lightroom app, you have a green overlay on your image preview communicating in real-time where the camera is in focus.įlowers moving in the wind - Holding a flower stem in one hand while you take the photo in the other hand can steady the flower. As you can see in the above illustration, the movement of the camera can easily shift which part of the scene at close range is in focus.

Hand holding the smartphone very close to moving subjects, like bees can be very frustrating and challenging.
